jjpal-yeah that might tell you a little about how he might have stood at the end of 2013, but he probably had multiple expiry dates and loaded up on them at various prices/times during the quarter. He's free to re sell contracts and or buy new puts to mitigate or magnify potential future damage or gain. If the value of put contracts owned went UP during the 4th quarter he must have rolled into ALOT of newly issued ones, since so many contracts would have fallen out of the money and/or expired worthless since 9/30/2013, while the net value of his bear position was increasing.

12:29 pm February 18, 2014

Hang em High wrote:

He has a key virtually to the white house. Europe has declared him a criminal. His influence with Obama is who know what. Doesn't sign in to the white house. Just walks in. And the politicians can't figure out how come the citizens are sick of them, letting a foreigner influence every day life! The guy needs hung!

12:41 pm February 18, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

George Soros influence of Communism into the Democratic Party. This azzwipe wants to see America Fundamentally changed and destroyed, to use an Obama quote. Americans had better wise up and rise up to rid this Country of Loons like Soros.

2:36 pm February 18, 2014

Plastic Surgeon wrote:

Soros needs those bags around his eyes taken care of.

3:32 pm February 18, 2014

Hey Hey Hey wrote:

The GOP’s Koch brothers are George Soros’ equivalents; don’t you think? No? Yeah, I figured thinking was an activity the rapidly diminishes with the degree of Republican conservatism. I mean, just take a look at Anonymous’ post; is thinking present? Of course not. In its stead, he/she/it relies on pseudo patriotism and jingoism to articulate a gut feeling—and I bet that gut is huge! It’s typical Republican, despite their lack of military service and general cowardice, they compensate for it by owning lots of guns, talking tough, and associating anything that they personally don’t like to socialism and communism. To them, that serves as patriotism. The ignorant and Nazis are like that.

5:32 pm February 18, 2014

Tim Carney wrote:

Wow. Sounds like Hey Hey Hey is having a rough day! Shouldn't take it so personal dude.

6:04 pm February 18, 2014

Chuck wrote:

George Soros is an evil man wanting to collapse economies like he did in Europe long ago. Now it is the United States he is targeting.

8:03 pm February 18, 2014

Yo yo yo wrote:

You bet your sweet arse he already covered that position.

8:09 pm February 18, 2014

mark wrote:

was this a opening buy put option and what epirxation,, he could have sold put options and be holding these getting paid like I am !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11:21 pm February 18, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

This will give him a lot more money to by Democrats with!

1:25 am February 19, 2014

D wrote:

Sore az is a New World Order Commie POS!

3:44 am February 19, 2014

Ashley_Strega wrote:

George also invests heavily in these Liberal Democrat dirt bags as well. I suppose he knows what he is getting with his money and what the liberal Democrat dirt bags will do to our economy. So, what does this say about Mr. Soros here?

10:47 am February 19, 2014

Duude wrote:

Soros was betting on Obamacare tanking the economy. Its really a no-brainer.

11:16 am February 19, 2014

stuart wrote:

thats what hedge funds do...they hedge winning positions.

12:06 pm February 19, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

soros is SUCH a HUGE IDIOT. I hope he goes bankrupt!!

12:07 pm February 19, 2014

Hank wrote:

Maybe Soros has been contributing to the Progressives so that their policies would enable him to make tons by shorting the market again like he and Jimmie Rogers did back in the 70s.

1:29 pm February 19, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

This is all by design. World financial collapse in steps the IMF to save the day. One world order.

1:45 pm February 19, 2014

The Truth wrote:

"soros is SUCH a HUGE IDIOT. I hope he goes bankrupt!!"

Ahahahahahahahaahahahaahaahahahahaha!

That HUGE IDIOT has made about 20 billion dollars. How about you?

3:23 pm February 19, 2014

The Truth wrote:

So, when does he get lined up in front of the firing squad for being an enemy of our Nation and a traitor?

4:11 pm February 19, 2014

Junky wrote:

Hopefully the markets keep going up until his put expired and become worthless

George Soros is one of the most dangerous men in the world. Thank goodness he is advancing in age so we don't have to endure him much longer.

2:00 am February 20, 2014

Liberty One wrote:

He needs lots of cash to fund Ukraine protests. Another diversion for Soro's. He was betting on them joining the UE. Ukraine denies joining and you scum bag gotta support rioting and destabilisation.

3:11 am February 20, 2014

Libtardz R. Retardz wrote:

I wish somebody would double down on this America hating turds head, with a led pipe!

11:54 am February 20, 2014

Interest of Nothing wrote:

To the lack-a-do idiots saying that Mr. Uber Kapitalist here is a communist: wow. So that's how fucked up America is, huh? That one of the most capitalistic men in the world is a communist and should be shot because of what some backwards entertainer brainwashed you into believing?
Goodness, I hope America is nuked soon. Particularly, the South.

3:54 pm February 20, 2014

Joe wrote:

Time is something that Soros should be concerned about. Betting that the market will decrease or increase should be the least of Soros concerns. The market will correct when it is time with our without Soros money.

6:34 pm February 20, 2014

H. Craig Bradley wrote:

PUT-IN ?

George Soros does not know much more about where this market is going than the rest of the investors out there. There is plenty of uncertainty to go around right now. He just took a reasonable precaution to protect some of his long positions with a hedge. I'll bet he already sold his SPY PUT Contract. If not, he probably will just let it expire and only be out his premium. Any Insurance is a cost.

7:15 pm February 20, 2014

EARL CARROLL wrote:

soros fund made 5.5 billion last year and the size of the fund is 28 billion not 11 billion and the author of this article says his fund grew by 2 billion from 9 billion to 11 billion...where is the other 17 billion invested? where did he make the other 3.5 billion other than the yen trade? these are the questions everyone would like to know the answer to.

5:16 am February 22, 2014

Dan hig wrote:

Does anyone know the expiry date of these options? Can't imagine soros buying so called 'insurance', ie 'cheap' short dated options, as that's not really taking a view, and if soros is famous for anything it's for having strong views and making big bets with conviction. Buying short dated out options is a kind of fence sitting, risk averse move and in the event of market turmoil don't work well because they expire and you need to roll over at much lower strikes, so you're unlikely to benefit much. I imagine he's taken long dated puts on the view the S&P is back to 2007 level valuations with many worrying signs such as record margin debt, record investor bull sentiment, and highest valuations since 2007. After 5 year bull market and recently spiking up chart patterns its really not looking good.

11:39 am May 20, 2014

David Caswell wrote:

The numbers in this article don't add up. The cost of 7.1 million shares is 1.3 billion. That's not the price of options on those shares. There's a 100% probability that people are misreading Soro's position.

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